2007-11-04 Not what it seems

Initially I thought this would be an excellent book which I desperately needed to convert from Windows to Linux for a LAMP build.The more in depth it became the more obvious it became that I was going to have to google for the answers.In some places it appeared as if Sobell plagerised from the help install notes and even then I found those more helpful in places like dealing with vsFTP which should be a simple task to explain. I've never bothered with a book review before but considering the price and the size of the book you would expect it to have more information than linux's man pages. My recommendation is to look else where like O'Reilly books where they don't have great big swathes of information on how to install using KDE and Gnome or using the yum installer but how to perform compiled installs.